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David Mallin #4
A Spoonful of Luger
Private Eye George Coe is staring at the end of his career.
He’s getting older, moving slower, and his bank account has seen better days.
But when nine year-old Dulcie Randall is reported missing, Coe can’t help but take the case – even though it will take him back to a town riddled with memories - memories he’d much rather forget.
Just as Coe starts looking for answers, he loses his biggest clue.
One of the main kidnapping suspects, Dennis Cleave, ends up murdered.
Soon Coe finds himself deep in the shady dealings of a car-breaking yard, sifting through false alibis and lies.
Can Coe use all of his cunning to extract the truth, in a town that’s filled with lies?
To find the answer, he must look to his own past...
A Spoonful of Luger is the fourth book in the David Mallin Detective series.
"Eclectic, underrated, Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling - Sunday Times
‘I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skilful hands’ - The Spectator
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels — some 35 in all — which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector — backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction.
He’s getting older, moving slower, and his bank account has seen better days.
But when nine year-old Dulcie Randall is reported missing, Coe can’t help but take the case – even though it will take him back to a town riddled with memories - memories he’d much rather forget.
Just as Coe starts looking for answers, he loses his biggest clue.
One of the main kidnapping suspects, Dennis Cleave, ends up murdered.
Soon Coe finds himself deep in the shady dealings of a car-breaking yard, sifting through false alibis and lies.
Can Coe use all of his cunning to extract the truth, in a town that’s filled with lies?
To find the answer, he must look to his own past...
A Spoonful of Luger is the fourth book in the David Mallin Detective series.
"Eclectic, underrated, Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling - Sunday Times
‘I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skilful hands’ - The Spectator
Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels — some 35 in all — which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector — backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction.
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Roger Ormerod
85 books9 followersRoger Ormerod was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. He worked as a county court officer, an executive officer in the Department of Social Security, a postman, and a shop loader in an engineering factory.
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May 8, 2019
P.I. George Coe is employed by Mr Randall to find their missing nine year old daughter Dulcie. But cases are never strightforward especially when a possible suspect is discovered killed.
An interesting mystery.
(NB Strange that this is David Mallin #4 but his name is never mentioned in the book)
An interesting mystery.
(NB Strange that this is David Mallin #4 but his name is never mentioned in the book)
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